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Retraction Note: An evaluation of the potential consequences of drilling titanium and tantalum implants during surgery - a pilot study

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders volume 20, Article number: 469 (2019) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 03 November 2017

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The authors have retracted this article [1] because it constitutes redundant publication [2]. The authors signed the licensing agreement for publication in HIP International before submitting the manuscript to BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. All authors agree to this retraction.

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  1. Clinic of Orthopedic and Traumatology, Regional Hospital and Kochanowski Medical University, Kielce, Poland

    Paweł Skowronek & Paweł Olszewski

  2. Faculty of Materials Science and Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Wojciech Święszkowski

  3. Clinic of Orthopedics and Pediatric Orthopedics, Medical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland

    Marcin Sibiński & Marek Synder

  4. Department of Angiology, Medical University of Łódź, ul. Narutowicza 60, 90-136, Łódź, Poland

    Michał Polguj

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Skowronek, P., Olszewski, P., Święszkowski, W. et al. Retraction Note: An evaluation of the potential consequences of drilling titanium and tantalum implants during surgery - a pilot study. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 20, 469 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12891-019-2824-5

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